Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

ClAl failure.
A SNAKE stopped B. clock in a New
Jersey factory the other day
The editor of new Texas paper
says he has only six subscribers.
CHINESE are returning to Vancouver,
b. o., under government protection.
NEVADA honey gets away with all
the premiums at California fairs.
LAKE TAHOE is to be used to irrigate
lands in Nevada.
LAMP burners should be boiled once
q week In g. solution of soda
FRAUDULENT advertisements have
been the means of filling Chattanooga,
Tenn, full of idle carpenters.
ACCORDING to recent estimates near
y fifty thousand suicides occur in
Europe every year.
A vIoLoNCELLo by Stradivarius has
Just been bought by Jules Desart In
Paris for $4,000.
QUAILs are said to have died by
thousands in Indian valley, California,
during the February storms.
EsMERALDA County, Nevada, pro-
duced about $11O, 900 worth of borax
last year.
MORE than three million tons OF
this winters ice have been harvested
on the Hudson.
IN New York some patriotic persons,
grateful for Bartholdi's gift. propose
to present g. statue of Washington to
France.
The Concord IN. H. Monitor tells
of g. man whose wife, having been
killed by the cars, settled with the
railroad company for $25.
THE tombs of La Fontaine and
Moliere, in Pere La Chaise, are crumb-
ling rapidly to ruin, and scarcely a
letter of the inscription is now visible
THE negroes of Savannah. Ga, ap-
pear to be doing remarkably well.
Over one thousand families OF that
race own their homes.
THE two ladies in the New York
school board voted against each other
on the question of timing teacher for
slapping a pupil.
The new steamships that are being
built in English shipyards are to be
fitted with triple-expansiOn engines.
This pattern Of engines effects saw
ing Of from 18 to 25 per cont. in the
consumption of fuel.
THE system of boycotting was Dor
rowed from India. It is there more
oppressive than in any other country
in the world, and is exercised for the
most trifing cause 1t is g. social Gus
tom there, but a very strong one.
A New YORK physician has informed
5 o'clock tea parties that their brass
teapots generate very poisonous sub
stance, and society has concluded to
limit it's use of brass to doOr-knockers
and other things.
BISHOP TAYLoR's Congo steamer
will be lighted by electricity, and will
carry saw mill on board. Hose to
squirt hot water on obstreperous
natives is to be coiled conveniently on
deck.
THERE are 149 American students
in the University of Berlin, nine study
ing theology, five law, forty-seven
medicine, fifty eight philosophy TWEEN
ty-seven mathematics and natural
science, and two political science.
The two copies of the Bible used at
Queen Victoria's coronation are still
in existence. One is an heirloom in the
family Of the late DR.. Sumner, Bishop
of Winchester, and the other is pre-
served in the cathedral of Norwich.
Coon hunting seems to bea lucrative
sport in some parts of Missouri. Two
hunters recently chopped down an
evident "coon tree" near Trenton and
got three coons, 100 pounds of honey,
and an oyster can In which were $3.50
in gold.
THREE burglars broke into the house
of Rev. Father McEurne, of Freeport,
Pa, the other night, and the plucky
priest knocked one down, and as the
others ran shot at them with his re-
volver. All escaped apparently IN
harmed.
The oldest person in South Carolina
is Mrs. Patsey Nelson, aged LOT years,
who lives near Chesterfield. She raised
twelve children, has seventy-six grand
children, eighty-nine great grandchll-
dren, and thirty seven great great
grandchildren.
CERTAIN well-known localities in
Lynchburg, Va, are known as "Dog
Alley" "Buzzard Roost," "Hog
Yard" and "Horse Heaven, and now
some of the people there are asking
that the name of Cork street be chang
ed to "Dairy Lane"
The San Francisco Italians ara rails
ing funds for the sufferers by earth
quake at the Riviere. They under
stand the discomforts OF q shock,
though not the dangers of q general
ruin of buildings, from experience on
the western coast.
In the college slang of Princeton a
perfect recitation is called a ''tear,"
of Harvard ''squirt," of Bowdoin a
"sail," of Williams "rake," of Ham
ilton q ''blood," and of Amherst q
sscold rush." Failures are called
''slumps," ''stumps," chunks" and
"smashes."
A YOUNG man OF Kansas City was
playing g. guitar the other evening and
a large rat came into the room, seem
ingly we'll pleased with the music. It
slowly ar,Oroarhad tha playar until